After almost two years of implementation, I am proud to announce the forth version of the Open source project called GPdotNET v4.0. The latest version completely implements Genetic Programming and Artificial Neural Network for supervised learning tasks in three kind of problems: regression, binary and...

This blog post is going to present how can you implement license functionality in your .NET application. Providing license in your .NET application is very challenging because there is no standard procedure for the implementation. You are free to use whatever you want. But be notice, there is no license...

The new version of Visual Studio will come with dramatically new installer, which will allow that you install only stuff you need, without gigabytes of unnecessary never used components. Current version of Visual Studio which is Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 is coming with nearly 8GB installation file...

ClickOnce technology is very smart and useful when you want simple, small and smart piece of software for deploying your Windows Forms or WFP application. This is specially useful if you deliver application which doesn't require administrator rights during installation. ClickOnce is very powerful...

Few days ago Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2015, the long waited release with tons of great features. In the last three years I held several sessions on Microsoft and Community conferences about some of the new feature in Visual Studio 2015, like new C# and VB compiler so called Roslyn, new JIT 64...

Few days ago I had a strange issue in one of my Visual Studio 2013 solution. The Test project required functionality of System.Windows.Automation, and I have added assembly UIAutomationClient. When tried to run tests I got the folowing compiler error: error CS0433: The type 'System.Windows.Automation...

The latest version of the Visual Studio 2015 is bringing a lot of new features for WPF and XAML programming language. For this blog post I would like to share the XAML Peak Definition. Peak Definition is not new, the current version of Visual Studio 2013 supports peak definition only for C# and VB. Now...

After some time of implementation and testing, the new version of GPdotNET is out. Go to codeplex page and download it. This is huge step in development of this project, because it contains completely new module based on Artificial Neural Network and other optimization methods e.g. Particle Swarm Optimization...

This is the first post in series of posts that describe upcomming version of GPdotNET v4.0. Besides lot of improvements of the current version, the main part isimplementation of neural networks and set of other optimization methods of machine learning. 1. Modelling with GPdotNET v4.0 GPdotNET is C#,...

Last few months I was playing with Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and how to implement it in to the GPdotNET. ANN is one of the most popular methods in Machine Learning, specially Back Propagation algorithm. First of all, the Artificial Neural Network is more complex than Genetic Algorithm, and you...

As currently implemented GPdotNET has classic crossover implementation without any intelligent way to exchange genetic materials. In most time classic crossover operation is destructive operation wasting lot of good genetic materials. By including brood recombination crossover can be slightly improved...

Here is a simple way to remove items from currently enumerated list. Put the list in while loop and make a manual index counter ( var ind=0 ). Within while loop, every time items is removed decrease the index counter, otherwise increase the index. private static void RemoveDirty(List<Element> lst...

Few months ago I wrote blog post about how to run code daily at specific time. I dint know that the post will be the most viewed post on my blog. Also there were several questions how to implement complete example. So today I have decided to write another post, and extend my previous post in order to...

In Windows every file has default icon, and it is shown in Windows Explorer while browsing files on disk. If you want to grab this icon in WPF application there are several ways. One of the solution is by using ExtractAssociatedIcon from Icon class located in System.Drawing namespace. The following code...

In WFP applications drag and drop functionality is provided by subscribing several events. First of all you need LeftMouseButtonClick and MouseMove events in order to start Drag and Drop. This is accomplished by the following code: private void Window_MouseLeftButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs...